Culture

Snow Woke?7
- Culture, Entertainment
- August 31, 2023
The lead role in Walt Disney’s Snow White remake, due for release in March 2024, is played by an actress who dislikes the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale and can’t stand the studio’s 1930s animated film. It’s a bold move for a production company that has spent almost $1 billion this year on box-office flops.
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Historical Living . . . in the City?0
- Culture
- August 23, 2023
When someone says, “traditional lifestyle,” we think of historical farms, countryside views, gardens, animals, sunrises, and sunsets. We rarely, if ever, think of apartments, city streets, and rental townhomes with historical living. Perhaps you’re a college student in a campus dorm room. Maybe your job keeps you in an urban studio apartment. Perhaps skyrocketing housing
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A Farewell to Postmodernism 3
- Culture, Philosophy
- August 22, 2023
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too, e.g. about the changes of the moon and of the sun, about the stars and about the origin of the universe.
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How Country Music Speaks for Everyday Americans 0
- Entertainment, Culture
- August 22, 2023
Taylor Swift may be the hottest ticket this summer, but her listeners don’t share her country roots. That space has been captured by a series of anthems singing the blue-collar blues, songs that are a lot closer to—and a lot more correct—about what is bugging everyday Americans. American music has always been an echo chamber
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Sex Is a Community Matter 6
- Family, Culture
- August 21, 2023
It’s been more than 60 years since the sexual revolution of the 1960s swept across the nation removing sexual barriers and changing beliefs around sex. These days, most people have accepted the idea that what two consenting adults do sexually is their own business, and the idea that sex is for forming families through the
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Farmer and Former Factory Worker Finds Overnight Fame with Viral Country Ballad 5
- Culture, Entertainment
- August 18, 2023
Last week, Oliver Anthony was a blue-collar worker from Farmville, Virginia, living on a 90-acre farm with his three dogs, a man unknown to the world. Today, his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” is at the top of the global music charts. A backyard recording of his “blue collar anthem,” as it’s been dubbed,
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